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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Jon Seidel

Feds ask judge to send former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton to prison for up to 18 months in embezzlement case

Illinois State Sen. Thomas E. Cullerton walks out of the Dirksen Federal Courthouse after pleading not guilty to federal charges he had been a ghost pay-roller for the Teamsters union, Friday, Aug. 16, 2019. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times file photo)

Federal prosecutors have asked a judge to sentence former state Sen. Thomas Cullerton to up to 18 months in prison in his $248,000 embezzlement case involving the Teamsters labor union, which cost him his seat in Springfield.

In doing so, the feds revealed that former Chicago Teamsters boss John T. Coli claimed Cullerton had been hired for what turned out to be a do-nothing Teamsters job as a favor to an unnamed senator, identified in a court memo only as “Senator A.”

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